Friday, June 5, 2015

One night around 2003, Hank Williams was lying in the gutter on Boulevard Street in Shreveport. Well, it was more like hundreds of discarded photographs were lying in the gutter. We scooped up all of them…businessmen, historic homes, and plenty of weird-looking babies. Hank Williams was in there somewhere. Four times, in fact. It appears that three of those photographs remain unpublished. Enjoy.

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Thanks to the three editors of The Hank Williams Reader (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014) for inspiring the hunt to dig these photographs out of storage. Great work, Patrick Huber, Steve Goodson, and David Anderson!

P. S. Thanks to Johnny Wessler for helping identify the other people in these photos.